Two hard drives in my computer have died in the past week. The first was a Seagate Barracuda 500GB and the second was a WD 160GB. The seagate I had for 2 years and I figured just died, so I moved onto my back up one. This WD is roughly 4 years old and never had any issues, so I do not know where this came about. I am going to test the WD drive for any issues, but I do not have the seagate on me, since I left for college yesterday. Any ideas on what is going on here? I don't want to get a new 1TB HDD and have it die on me. Really confused as to what is going on.
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Two hard drives dead in one week
- Thread starter xBanzai89
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This is the psu http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1170&ID=1518#Tab1. PSU has been fine ever since I've gotten it 2 years ago. Not sure what AVR is either.
AVR is active voltage regulation.. That is if the power coming in to the UPS is less than optimal, it will still output the proper 110v to the computer.
Most newer UPSes have it, some don't and only kick in if power is out, providing less than ideal protection in a brown out or power spike.
Most newer UPSes have it, some don't and only kick in if power is out, providing less than ideal protection in a brown out or power spike.
Ok that makes sense.
Well I restarted the computer a few more times. Mostly stops at the motherboard welcoming screeny. Got into the bios once to check the system, everything seemed normal. Got into windows 7 once and it locked up. Tried again and it won't recognize the hdd. Motherboard issue maybe?
Well I restarted the computer a few more times. Mostly stops at the motherboard welcoming screeny. Got into the bios once to check the system, everything seemed normal. Got into windows 7 once and it locked up. Tried again and it won't recognize the hdd. Motherboard issue maybe?